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In her first big movie — Francis Ford Coppola’s “The Conversation” — she had a small role as Gene Hackman’s girlfriend and received favorable reviews.

Like many high school chemistry teachers, Angie Hackman said she instructs students on atoms, matter and how they “influence the world around us.”

While Hackman, the chemistry teacher, spends a lot of class time reading articles, Maggie Fallon, a math teacher, said she primarily supports literacy by teaching students new vocabulary.

But Hackman also has another responsibility: developing students’ literacy skills.

Faiza Omar, who took Hackman’s class last school year as a junior, learned English as a second language and didn’t receive the foundational reading interventions until high school.